Beginner in Chinese?

Learn Chinese Through Songs #18 – Mouse Loves Rice

Mouse Loves Rice (老鼠爱大米) by Yang Chengang (杨臣刚). This song is another favourite among Chinese learners. It’s also been reproduced across Asia in a number of different languages, including English (it really doesn’t work in English!)

The music and the lyrics are sickly sweet, so it’s not exactly going to be a song you’re going to listen to just for pleasure, but the lyrics actually introduce a number of important grammar patterns in Chinese in a simple way, so you’ll learn a lot from this one (plus you might become more of a sweet talker!)

I’ve always found the metaphor of loving somebody like mice love rice pretty strange, but I guess that’s part of what makes this song very unique!

Here are the lyrics in Pinyin, simplified characters and the English translation: